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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715440-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-031 U.S. Government Debt and the Debate over a Balanced Budget Amendment In the first decade of the 21st century, national debt as a share of GDP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
debate and vote on every issue before Congress. The votes are then proxied through a congressperson who has pledged to vote according to what the district majority says on the platform. Another venture, OpenGov, is a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
everyday voters. Among their recommendations: Change the election process so that it more fairly represents all voters, by gerrymandering reforms overseen by a nonpartisan redistricting panel, and open access to presidential debates to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
visited factories producing clothing and fabric and compared the techniques used by competitors in different parts of the world, I began thinking about the factors firms consider when deciding what kinds of technology should be deployed in what kinds of locations. At... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, and he hopes that examining the role of FDI in these four Asian economies, in addition to the work he did on China, will stimulate further academic and policy debates on this topic. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51720 Tort Reform and Innovation By: Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo Abstract—Current academic and policy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
valuation of the startup by 17.1%-22.0%. April 2015 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Enterprise Reform Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Module Note 712-028 The note examines state capitalism in the twenty-first century. It introduces a series of topics and cases related to state capitalism, such as the debate about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation that came with the emergence of investor capitalism in the 1970s. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the debate about the sources of America’s economic malaise, and what could be done about it, began to penetrate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
disaster. It was a problem that had to be solved at any cost." Their internal debates about whether and how to forge a future economic relationship with Russia, he discovered, were tightly connected to who they believed they were as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Abstract—Scholars from many disciplines have investigated self-deception, but defining self-deception and establishing its possible benefits have been a matter of heated debate—a debate impoverished by a relative lack of empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This working paper provides a business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
strategy. Allows debate around the criteria for selection of quality improvement strategies. Also motivates the discussion of the effectiveness of collaboratives and, more broadly, the effectiveness of intra-organizational versus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 708-490 The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to the current method of straight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
to debate these issues. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507074 Grosvenor Group Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 207-064 A global real estate investment firm is trying to decide whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
(NAFTA). Twenty-five years after the landmark trade pact was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, considerable debate surrounded it. Trade and trade agreements were a focal point of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. NAFTA... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman